Daniel Peter Enns was the son of Peter and Katharina Toews Enns. He was born at Wasserreich, Don Province, Russia on 17 July 1877 and immigrated to Canada in July 1924, where he died on 4 June 1946. He was married to Katharina Janzen 6 May 1907, at Gnadenfeld, Taurida, Russia. They had three children: Alice, Anna, and Theodore. He attended the teacher-training school at Halbstadt, Taurida, 1894-96, and the Commercial Institute at St. Petersburg, 1911-13. He obtained his high-school teacher's certificate at Simferopol in 1907 and his commercial teacher's degree at St. Petersburg in 1913. He was baptized in 1897 at the Halbstadt Mennonite Church, and was elected to the ministry in the Alexanderkrone congregation in 1916, but did not accept the office.